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On April 1st, the UK minimum wage increased to £8.21 ($10.46) giving it one of the highest minimum wages, in real terms as well as a proportion of the median full-time salary, in the world. Known as the National Living Wage, the top rate is paid to employees in the UK aged over 25, with...
One of the most important aspects of a project manager’s job is measuring progress on each task. It helps employees stay focused and meet goals, and it helps project managers stay on top of what’s happening in the workplace. The first step of effective leadership is helping others stay on task, keeping team members engaged...
In the latest release of Tasktop Integration Hub (19.3), the Product Development team tried out an experiment to deliver even more business value out of our flagship product. In my last blog, I described how Tasktop has made few cultural and process-oriented changes to be more customer-obsessed and ship features faster. Galvanized by the new...
In today’s economy, victory goes not to the certain, but to those brave enough to leap even though they don’t know where they’re going to land. Success requires the courage to suspend expectations of security. To let go, for a moment, the burning need to know how the story will end. Leaders can earn their...
Despite their headlong pursuit of tomorrow’s innovations, too many organizations still cling to yesterday’s hierarchies. They conflate “supervisor” with “boss”—the person over and above a team of subordinates. But organizations that truly want to transform themselves and the world around them are flipping that hierarchy upside-down: meet the anti-manager. A new wave of start-ups and...
One can say that a project is like a musical symphony. It needs all its members kept in perfect tune to achieve a “melody of happiness”, in other words, delivering the project’s outcome successfully. In this context, the project manager is like a maestro, conducting their team with elegance to carry out the program as...
This is the second installment in a series of posts about the benefits of realizing Agile at scale. Be sure to check out part one, “3 Key Shifts Necessary for Scaling Agile,” first. There are many benefits to scaling Agile, both tangible and intangible. Embracing an Agile mindset and culture shift across the enterprise has...
Whether it’s time to paint your living room or restructure your company, knowing when to make a change is not always obvious. But one thing is for certain: It’s never easy. Consider the widening debate over what to do about daylight savings. When the clock jumps forward in the spring, we sorely miss that lost...
The weeks, months or even years in which a project is planned and executed constitute a wealth of work and documentation, including contracts, planning, communication, deliverables and reporting. By the time you reach the end of a project life cycle, you’ll find that there are several further steps required just for closure. The closure phase...
There are significant differences between the roles of a marketing manager and a project manager. Marketing managers are better known for deciding on creative direction and transforming a client’s needs into an effective and persuasive campaign, whereas a project manager is focused on building a capable team that can ensure completion of deliverables on budget...
